Alan R. Warren - The Grindr Serial Killer: The True Story of Stephen Port

In todays world where meeting people for the purpose of having sex with a simple click on your phone, a new type of gay sex called party n play or Chemsex has become all the rage in the mainstream.

Several young gay men were being found dead appearing to have overdosed on the favorite sex drugs used at these Chemsex parties, in a city church yard in east London. Was this what the metro police claimed it was a sex drug overdose or was there something more going on here?

It would soon be discovered that a popular 41-year-old, Stephen Port, who had appeared on Celebrity Chef UK would be arrested and charged with four of the young mens murders by overdosing them with GBH (the Date Rape Drug), enough to kill the men, and then raping them and leaving their bodies out in a church yard.

Since the conviction of Celebrity Chef UK, Stephen Port, the police are now reviewing 58 other mysterious deaths by overdose where the body was found dead in the same area of London. There are now 17 police officers under investigation for not investigating the crimes because of their homophobia.

Included are several of the personal letters convicted serial killer Stephen Port sent to his friend and pen-pal Cody Lachey which reveals what he claims happened to each of the victims and what really happened in these Chemsex parties. You will also find out some of Ports personal details that you wouldnt expect to hear.

It was a crisp cloudy fall day on Thursday October 15, 2015 when the London Metropolitan Police came to Stephen Ports one-bedroom flat on Cooke Street in Barking, East London, to place Port into custody and charge him with the murders of four men. The police also charged Port with six counts of administering a poison, seven charges of rape and four charges of sexual assault. It would be while Port was in custody in July of 2016, that the prosecutors added another eight counts of poisoning for a total of twenty-nine charges against him.

When Stephen Port was arrested, he placed into the Level an HMP (Her Majesties Prison) Belmarsh, which is the highest security prison category based on the severity of the crime, as well as the risk posed if the prisoner would escape. The prison is located adjacent to the Woolwich Crown Court, in South-East London, where quite often the high-profile cases are heard. The Belmarsh Prison was also used to house all people who posed a threat to the National Security of the country, quite a few of them were detained indefinitely without charge under the Crime and Security Act of 2001.

According to a report by The Daily Mail in the U.K. from May 17, 2016, the Belmarsh maximum security jail is like a jihadist training camp, where extremists brainwash young prisoners to spread the terror message across the whole prison system, a former inmate claimed in the report. A group of jihadists who call themselves The Akhi (Arabic for brother) appear to almost run the prison. At the time of this report there were 28 inmates being held for terrorist related offenses.

This creates a problem for the other inmates that are being held in the prison, especially young offenders like Stephen Port, who the Akhi try to indoctrinate and brainwash into their beliefs and create a larger network of terrorists in the prison. Someone like Port also has the problems of his sexuality, as it would not be accepted in such an extreme group as the Akhi, could also become a threat to his own life.

It was this type of atmosphere that existed in the Belmarsh Prison that would leave Stephen Port very alone and feeling quite vulnerable. His parents were not able to visit Stephen and he would be in his cell for up to 23 hours per day, where his only means of communication would be to exchange letters with his family, friends or anybody on the outside. This is where a man by the name of Cody Lachey would come into Stephens life to help fill the empty void that Stephen had been now living locked away in prison.

It would have been in the winter of 2015 when Stephen would receive a letter in prison from someone he had never heard of before. It wouldnt be long before Stephen realized that being all over the news on television, radio and the internet would put him in the spotlight, not only in the prison, but in the UK and the World. Soon he would start getting letters from dozens of both men and women looking to get to know him, quite often in a romantic way.

I met Cody Lachey after seeing him on a documentary called Crime and Investigation. Cody had been on the program which discussed several serial killers in Britain, and he had not only known some of them, but also communicated with them, and one of them was Stephen Port.

Cody Lachey was an ex-convict who had been in prison in the UK three times, once in the HMP Manchester known as the Notorious Strangeways and twice in Salfords Forest Bank Prison. Cody had been involved in the criminal underworld and a drug dealer. The 35-year-old, 64 had been shot at and stabbed several times before serving his time in prison.

Cody now is reformed and living in Manchester, England, where he has become a crime commentator which covers all aspects of his own personal history of living the life of crime and being in prisons. He has been on several documentaries, spoke to criminology students, and given in depth perspectives on prison reform in the UK. Cody told me,

It was from my childhood where I was raised watching serial killer, and gangster documentaries that I went on to be involved with all of the lifestyle. My early lifestyle is also what started me on writing to serial killers who were in prison. I really enjoyed discussing the cases with he killers and wanted to hear their sides of the story.

I first wrote to Stephen Port after he was charged with the four murders and a whole host of other offences. I read a news article that stated that Port was in the HMP Belmarsh, and I knew how to write to prisoners from being in prison myself earlier. So, I wrote to him and he replied, and we went from there.

We corresponded for months and I couldnt believe how open he was discussing his case with me from the very first letter. As a former prisoner myself it was obvious that he wasnt clued up that he was on remand, and it was well known that if youre in prison on remand you dont discuss your case with anyone whether that be speaking on the phone or in letters. Even with your cell-mate you say nothing, as anything you say or do can be used as evidence against you, but Port was very much an open book.